Perspectives on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 155, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-177

  Schwartz, Mark W ^a   Deiner, Kristy ^a   Forrester, Tavis ^a   Grof Tisza, Patrick ^a   Muir, Matthew J ^a   Santos, Maria J ^a   Souza, Levi E ^a   Wilkerson, Marit L ^a   Zylberberg, Maxine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Community of practice; Conservation management; Decision science; Results based conservation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863842011     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.06.014     Document Type: Review

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